{"product_id":"9781590170700","title":"The Tenants of Moonbloom","description":"By: Edward Lewis Wallant     \u003chr\u003eNorman Moonbloom is a loser, a drop-out who can't even make it as a deadbeat. His brother, a slumlord, hires him to collect rent in the buildings he owns in Manhattan. Making his rounds from apartment to apartment, Moonbloom confronts a wildly varied assortment of brilliantly described urban characters, among them a gay jazz musician with a sideline as a gigolo, a Holocaust survivor, and a brilliant young black writer modeled on James Baldwin. Moonbloom hears their cries of outrage and abuse; he learns about their secret sorrows and desires. And as he grows familiar with their stories, he finds that he is drawn, in spite of his best judgment, into a desperate attempt to improve their lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdward Lewis Wallant's astonishing comic tour de force is a neglected masterpiece of 1960s America.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"US - Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":46404850548963,"sku":"DTRPRUS-9781590170700","price":128.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/9781590170700.jpg?v=1748571893","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/zh\/products\/9781590170700","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}